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Provides access to a suite of powerful proprietary large language models, including GPT-4 and GPT-3.5, via API for developers to build AI-powered applications.

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6 alternatives to OpenAI

Qwen

An open-source family of large language models developed by Alibaba Cloud, featuring scalable model sizes and versions released under permissive licenses like Apache 2.0 .

Free

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An open-source family of large language models developed by Alibaba Cloud, featuring scalable model sizes and versions released under permissive licenses like Apache 2

21,004 stars1,790 forksPython

OpenLLaMA

An open-source reproduction of Meta AI’s LLaMA models, offering permissively licensed weights in 3B, 7B, and 13B parameter sizes compatible with both PyTorch and JAX.

Free

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An open-source reproduction of Meta AI’s LLaMA models, offering permissively licensed weights in 3B, 7B, and 13B parameter sizes compatible with both PyTorch and JAX

7,534 stars405 forks

Steel‑LLM

A fully open-source, 1B-parameter Chinese-centric language model trained from scratch, with complete access to code, data, checkpoints, and logs under the Apache 2.0 license.

Free

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A fully open-source, 1B-parameter Chinese-centric language model trained from scratch, with complete access to code, data, checkpoints, and logs under the Apache 2

800 stars77 forksJupyter Notebook

TinyLLaMA

A compact, open-source LLaMA-based language model (~1.1 B parameters) pretrained on trillions of tokens under the Apache 2.0 license.

Free

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A compact, open-source LLaMA-based language model (~1

8,936 stars607 forksPython

BLOOM

It is a 176B parameter open-access multilingual language model for text generation and research, supporting 46 languages and 13 programming languages.

Free

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It is a 176B parameter open-access multilingual language model for text generation and research, supporting 46 languages and 13 programming languages

1,010 stars101 forksShell

Falcon LLM

An open-source family of large language models by the UAE's Technology Innovation Institute, offering high-performance AI in varying parameter scales with rich multimodal and multilingual capabilities.

Free

Key differentiator

An open-source family of large language models by the UAE's Technology Innovation Institute, offering high-performance AI in varying parameter scales with rich multimodal and multilingual capabilities

9,182 stars749 forksPython